Cassandra,

Your statement of "he protests too much" is a very lame and misdirected way of thinking.

I can be against unreasonable search and still not be a dope addict. I value liberty and I can argue that a cop was over-zealous or out-and-out lying about a person's driving without being in favor of drunk driving.

My brother was pulled over a few years ago. He had a bike in his trunk which was tied down very tightly. The cop pulls him over and asks "Is that your bike?" Brother replies, "No, it's a friend's." Cop says, "Get out of the car. Walk the line..." "You are under arrest for DWI."

They get to the station and my brother blows .09 when the law was .10. Cop still charges him and in his report he states: "Subject was observed weaving and crossing yellow line." No mention of the bike and never was weaving mentioned until they knew my brother had beaten the test.

Cops cheat and lie just like most everyone else.

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Sorry you misunderstood Donco. You (on this thread) have judged the lady guilty and unable to drive. My thoughts were that you found the "Dam dame a drunk" If you re-read many of these posts you'll notice how many prejudged the story and probably without reading it through.

>>Ummm, she didn't have her lights on. She was obviously impacted enough to forget to turn on her lights. <<

Heck, once I forgot to turn on my lights when I came out of a brightly lit car dealers parking lot at night. Not one drink in my system. So there are many reasons one would forget to turn on their lights...

Listen, as the veteran of a police-provided bump on the elbow during the 1968 "excitement" in Cambridge between local police and the mixed group of activists and passers-by who moved too slow (like me), I'm hardly going to argue that right is always on the side of uniformed might -- not by a long shot. Nor that "arbitrary" isn't exactly the right word to describe some traffic-cop actions, and not just in DC.

But time after time, I note how very defensive and agitated certain people can get about their right to drink wherever, whatever, and whenever, often drastically out of proportion to what the actual topic of discussion is. Any hint that there's such a thing as too much or an occasion when drinking might not be wise and they get in your face and howl "Prohibition! Infringement on rights! You aren't the boss of me!"

I'm sorry, people, but my own experience is that the ones who come on the strongest about how offended they are, are often the ones that most want to deflect attention from looking at a possible problem. And there's an awful lot of "I can do what I want and you're just a teetotalling doodoo-head if you think otherwise" whining going on here, in between the actual discussions of DC's policy and practice.

I live in the DC area and the story that's "going around" is that she gave the cop a hard time when he pulled her over and he reacted in kind.

Wow, Cassandra, you really are accusing us of being drunk drivers! No point in discussing this with you--you're so high up on your horse, you can't hear us.

Author: Greatsights
Date: 10/17/2005, 04:15 pm
Sorry you misunderstood Donco. You (on this thread) have judged the lady guilty and unable to drive.

Where did I do that??? I just re-read my posts and am at a total loss. Of course, that is not unusual for me-I try not to think and drive! Har har.

Seems to me that you should take the Metro, Cab or bus if you are drinking and driving